K2

• K-2

Thomas Montgomerie designated the mountain K2 in 1856 for being the second peak of the Karakoram range.

• IPA^(key): /keɪˈtuː/

K2

1. A mountain on the border between Pakistan and Taxkorgan, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China, the world’s second highest mountain, located in the Ladakh Karakorams
   • [1912, De Filippi, Filippo, Karakoram and Western Himalaya, 1909‎, New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, OCLC 977976590, OL 22884138M, page 12:

     Here we have K², the highest mountain at present open to Europeans to attempt, only 750 feet lower than Mount Everest.²

     ² The designation of K² as the second highest mountain in the world must not be taken too literally. As a matter of fact, it is less than a hundred feet higher than Kinchinjunga, and the calculations cannot yet be made with such exactness as to eliminate all chances of error. There is still the possibility that Kinchinjunga may prove to be the higher of the two.]

   • 2001, Heidi Howkins, K2: One Woman's Quest for the Summit‎, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, →ISBN, LCCN 2001030265, OCLC 440712295, page v:

     What is there on the summit of K2, that would entice a climber to risk everything?

   • 2010, Graham Bowley, No Way Down: Life and Death on K2‎, HarperCollins, →ISBN, LCCN 2010005706, OCLC 731488256, page xx:

     Meyer’s team was one of eight international expeditions that were setting off on the final day of their ascent of K2, at 28,251 feet the second-tallest mountain on earth. K2 was nearly 800 feet shorter than Everest, the world’s highest peak, but it was considered much more difficult, and more deadly.

   • 2021 July 27, Umar Farooq, “Pakistani, 19, becomes youngest person to summit K2”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 27 July 2021:

     A 19-year-old Pakistani has become the youngest person to summit K2, the world's second highest mountain, the Alpine Club of Pakistan said on Tuesday. Shehroze Kashif reached the 8,611 metre (28,251 foot) summit at 8:10 a.m. on Tuesday.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:K2.

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• “K2, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “K2”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

K2

1. (Philippines) Initialism of kinder two.

K2

1. (chiefly Taiwan) K2; Alternative name for 喬戈里峰／乔戈里峰 (Qiáogēlǐ Fēng).

Borrowed from English K2.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaˈdva/
• Rhymes: -adva
• Syllabification: K‧2

K2 f (indeclinable)

1. K2 (a mountain in Himalayas, the world’s second highest mountain)

• K2 in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• K2 in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English K2.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka ˈdojs/

K2 m

1. K2 (a mountain in the Himalayas, the world’s second highest mountain)